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By
Lucien Haag, Former Criminalist and Technical Director, Phoenix Crime Laboratory, President, Forensic Science Services, Inc., Carefree, AZ, USA
Description
Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene
evidence, and the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates
numerous invitations to reconstruct shooting incidents. The discharge of firearms and the behavior of projectiles create many forms of
physical evidence that, through proper testing and interpretation by a skilled forensic scientist, can establish what did and what did
not occur. This book is generated from the authors numerous years of conducting courses and seminars on the subject of shooting incident
reconstruction. It seeks to thoroughly address matters from simple to complex in providing the reader an explanation of the factors surrounding
ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes. The ultimate objectives of this unique book are to assist investigators, crime scene analysts,
pathologists, ballistics experts, and lawyers to understand the terminology, science, and factors involved in reconstructing shooting
incident events to solve forensic cases. The book will cover the full range of related topics including the range from which a firearm
was discharged, the sequence of shots in a multiple discharge shooting incident, the position of a firearm at the moment of discharge,
the position of a victim at the moment of impact, the probable flight path of a projectile, the manner by which a firearm was discharged
and much more.
Audience
The audience would include practicing forensic scientists (firearm and toolmark
examiners), ballistics experts, crime scene personnel,
police departments, forensic consultants, attorneys and judges, Medical Examiners (coroners), and forensic pathologists.
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE RECONSTRUCTIVE ASPECTS of CLASS CHARACTERISTICS and a LIMITED UNIVERSE
3. IS IT A BULLET HOLE?
4. SOME USEFUL
REAGENTS and THEIR APPLICATION
5. GUNSHOT RESIDUES and PROXIMITY TESTS
6. PROJECTILE PENETRATION and PERFORATION
7. PROJECTILE RICOCHET
8. THE PRINCIPLES of ?TRAJECTORY? RECONSTRUCTION
9. THE SHOOTING OF MOTOR VEHICLES
10. TRAJECTORIES in HUMAN BODIES
11. TRACE EVIDENCE
CONSIDERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FIREARMS EVIDENCE: EVIDENTIARY and RECONSTRUCTIVE SPECTS
12. CARTRIDGE CASE EJECTION and EJECTION PATTERNS
13. TRUE BALLISTICS: LONG DISTANCE SHOOTINGS and FALLING BULLETS
14. SHOTGUN SHOOTINGS and EVIDENCE
15. ULTIMATE OBJECTIVES, REPORTS
and COURT PRESENTATION
APPENDIX
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 368 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088473-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-088473-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
Price: Order form
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EUR 84.95
USD 93.95
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Last update: 10 Jun 2008
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